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University of California San DiegoFri, 16 Mar 2018 19:00:37 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/files/2016/07/cropped-Modern-Logo-2-32x32.pngDepartment of Sociologyhttps://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife
3232Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra Featured in Podcast Interviewhttps://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2018/03/16/juan-pablo-pardo-guerra-featured-in-podcast-interview/
https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2018/03/16/juan-pablo-pardo-guerra-featured-in-podcast-interview/#respondFri, 16 Mar 2018 18:58:22 +0000https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/?p=614Continue reading →]]>Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, assitant professor of sociology at UC San Diego, was a guest on Spanish-language podcast, “Sociología con Acento.” During the podcast interview, Pardo-Guerra discussed his transition from the physics field to sociology.

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra received his BSc in physics from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and his PhD in science and technology studies from the University of Edinburgh. Therefore, his research explores the connections between markets, cultures and technologies. His current research, as discussed in the interview, focuses of the sociology of finance.

“It’s odd that Trump’s Justice Department is going after affirmative action while Trump is putting all of these people in positions of power and influence who are clearly not qualified for their positions,” said John Skrentny of Sociology and the Yankelovich Center to CNN.

]]>https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2018/01/17/john-skrentny-featured-in-cnn-article/feed/0Akos Rona-Tas to Speak in UCSD-TV Programhttps://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2018/01/17/akos-rona-tas-to-speak-in-ucsd-tv-program/
https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2018/01/17/akos-rona-tas-to-speak-in-ucsd-tv-program/#respondWed, 17 Jan 2018 20:29:18 +0000https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/?p=606Continue reading →]]>Premiering on UCSD-TV on Feb. 2: Literature professor emeritus Roddey Reid speaks about his new short book, “Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: A Citizen’s Handbook for the Trump Era and Beyond,” with Akos Rona-Tas of Sociology. The program is presented by the Division of Social Sciences, Division of Arts and Humanities and the Department of Literature.

]]>https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2018/01/11/john-skrentny-to-speak-at-tribute-event-for-daniel-yankelovich/feed/0Isaac Martin’s Article on the Republican Tax Strategy Published in the New York Timeshttps://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2018/01/10/isaac-martins-article-on-the-republican-tax-strategy-published-in-the-new-york-times/
https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2018/01/10/isaac-martins-article-on-the-republican-tax-strategy-published-in-the-new-york-times/#respondWed, 10 Jan 2018 21:57:52 +0000https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/?p=597Continue reading →]]>Isaac Martin, professor and department chair at sociology, has written an op-ed that was published in the New York Times. The article, titled “How Republicans Learned to Sell Tax Cuts for the Rich,” discusses the Republican tax strategy, rooted in the American populist tradition, which was first used to help the rich instead of the poor.

In the article, Isaac Martin argues that opponents of the current tax bill should reclaim their own populist roots. He writes:

It will not be hard. The tax bill pays for corporate tax cuts by increasing individual income taxes on poor and middle-class Americans in the long run. That tax increase will make people hopping mad. Another wave of economic populism is coming, and people who favor progressive taxation should not retreat to the seminar room.

]]>https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2018/01/10/isaac-martins-article-on-the-republican-tax-strategy-published-in-the-new-york-times/feed/0Jennifer Nations Receives Dean’s Fellowship for Humanistic Studieshttps://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2017/12/05/jennifer-nations-receives-deans-fellowship-for-humanistic-studies/
https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2017/12/05/jennifer-nations-receives-deans-fellowship-for-humanistic-studies/#respondTue, 05 Dec 2017 20:21:59 +0000https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/?p=584Continue reading →]]>Jennifer Nations of sociology was under the impression that she was going into a meeting with her dissertation adviser Isaac Martin when she was surprised with an award and $20,000 prize. Nations, who recently received her PhD at the UC San Diego Department of Sociology, was selected as the first recipient of the Dean’s Fellowship Award for Humanistic Studies.

Nations said that it was both “gratifying and a little surreal.”

The Dean’s Fellowship Award for Humanistic Studies was created by an anonymous donor with the passion to support graduate students. It is described as a gift to benefit the recipient, which is selected selected on the basis of academic merit as well as demonstrated perseverance to overcome personal hardship. This award celebrates PhD students in Anthropology, Communication, History, Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy and Sociology, recognizing these fields as ones who help to “drive creative innovation in our society” and are “intrinsic to campus enrichment and critical to our shared future.”

Jennifer Nations, who studies social inequality and public policy, explores in her dissertation how it is that states have wound up with wildly different approaches to helping their citizens afford the costs of college. Isaac Martin, in nominating her for the surprise fellowship, wrote both about Nations’ stellar scholarship and about how she’s been raising three young children in sometimes challenging financial circumstances. He also noted that she goes out of her way to help undergrads who are struggling for one reason or another.

A campus photographer snapped pictures of the shock, the smiles, the tears and more smiles.

Established in 1983, the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Slavic Studies, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) and the Stanford University Center for Russian and East European Studies, is awarded annually for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences published in English in the United States in the previous calendar year. The Vucinich Book Prize carries a cash award and is presented at the Annual Convention.

]]>https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2017/10/27/martha-lapmland-receives-honorable-mention-for-book-prize/feed/0Gary Lee Successfully Defends Dissertationhttps://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2017/10/27/gary-lee-successfully-defends-dissertation/
https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2017/10/27/gary-lee-successfully-defends-dissertation/#respondFri, 27 Oct 2017 19:56:28 +0000https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/?p=574Continue reading →]]>Gary Lee, graduate student at UCSD’s Department of Sociology, successfully defended his dissertation “The Illiberal Commonwealth: On the Problem of Difference and Imperial Control in Jamaica, the Straits Settlements and the Nineteenth Century British Empire” in August.

In 2017-18 school-year, he will be serving as a visiting assistant professor of sociology at Oberlin College in Ohio.

]]>https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2017/10/27/gary-lee-successfully-defends-dissertation/feed/0John Evans Appointed Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethicshttps://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2017/10/27/john-evans-appointed-co-director-of-the-institute-for-practical-ethics/
https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2017/10/27/john-evans-appointed-co-director-of-the-institute-for-practical-ethics/#respondFri, 27 Oct 2017 19:45:06 +0000https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/?p=572Continue reading →]]>John Evans, professor at the department of sociology, will be serving as one of the inaugural co-directors of the Institute for Practical Ethics along with Craig Callender of Philosophy.

Hosted in the Division of Arts and Humanities, the mission of the institute is to develop and promote cross-disciplinary research on ethical issues facing the public, with special emphasis on fostering deliberation amongst ethicists, scientists and policy makers. The aim of the Institute for Practical Ethics is to help close the gap between the pace of innovation and our ability to deal with these questions responsibly. The institute will host speakers, convene interdisciplinary research groups and create publicly available analyses of cutting-edge ethical issues generated by UC San Diego’s research activity.

]]>https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2017/10/27/john-evans-appointed-co-director-of-the-institute-for-practical-ethics/feed/0Armand Gutierrez Recipient of Two Different Honorshttps://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2017/07/07/armand-gutierrez-recipient-of-two-different-honors/
https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/2017/07/07/armand-gutierrez-recipient-of-two-different-honors/#respondFri, 07 Jul 2017 18:23:25 +0000https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucsdsoclife/?p=547Continue reading →]]>Armand Gutierrez, a graduate student in the UCSD department of Sociology recently received two different honors: The California Immigration Research Initiative Graduate Student Fellowship, as well as Honorable Mention for the 2017 Graduate Student Paper Award from the Asia and Asian American Section for the American Sociological Association for his paper “A Family Affair: How and Why Second-Generation Filipino-Americans Engage in Transnational Social and Economic Connections.”